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Lyne Burn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3635
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3635 (3635)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lyne
- National Grid reference
- NT 1987 4393
- Latitude
- 55.68225
- Longitude
- -3.27594
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.54 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3237
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50045
- National record
- record NT 14 SE 21; monument 50045
- Wikidata
- Q31106352
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh